Car bought from a dealer but Mileage maybe rolled back

Hi I bought a car about 2 weeks ago and today I ran a Carfax on it and they
reported the mileage to be 164000 miles in June and my car is at 169,000 KM
when i bought iti think the dealer rolled back the mileage and I want to do
something about this is there a law I can notify because i feel scammed big
time I bought a 1992 Acura Legend for $7400 with tax but even on the bill it
doesnt show that the guy put the mileage on it.

 

You didn't get it. 164000 MILES before, 169000 KILOMETERS now. 164000
Miles is about 260000 KILOMETERS. Could it be the carfax report just
screwed up and it should have been KM not miles? Then the #'s would make
sense.

Rick

 

ok this is what it says

06/17/2003
164,114
Auto Auction

Sold at auction in
Ontario
Listed as a
dealer vehicle with
264117 kilometers

 

Don't even bother going back to the dealer. Go to your local Police station
right away. This is fraud and, as such, it is a criminal offence.
You could also call a lawyer specialized in fraud to see what is the way to
proceed.
If there is a record of your car with higher milleage that it is today, this
will void the sale contract and you should get your money back.

 

I have a copy of a CarFax report, but it only states that no odometer
readings were reported. Can one specify kilometers or miles when reporting
odometer readings or are miles assumed?

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I don't know for sure, but I assume the assumption would be based upon what
the report data is coming from. If it's a title swap or vehicle
registration in Quebec, I would assume they'd think to use kilometers... if
it's in Texas, I would think they'd assume miles.

That's just a guess though.

 

The assumption is that the number on the instrument is the number reported,
but we all know what it means to assume...

 

Is the speedometer in miles or kilometers ?

 

Maybe the "2" was entered by mistake. Maybe it was 164,114 and sat on the
lot for a month only accrueing 3 miles/KM on test drives etc. Sounds like a
reasonable mistake to me. Dealers are not as dishonest as people would like
to believe. It would be very stupid to try this type of thing in this era
with all the electronic communication and database storage capabilities we
have now. Too easy to cross check things like mileage.

David Short
Acura God

 

It's difficult to understand if there is really a problem here!
Whether it is miles or kilometres that's pretty reasonable
average annual usage for a 12 year old car i.e. a 1992 model that
was possibly manufactured in late 1991; now 2003. (2003 - 1991 =
12 years).
164,000 Mi./12 = a bit less than 14,000 mi. per year or roughly
1100 to 1200 miles per month.
260,000 Km./12 = approximately 22,000 km.per year or roughly 1800
kilometres per month.
1800 kilometres = about 1200 miles per month.
Sounds like a data base designed around 'mileage' might have just
got kilometres mixed up?
And anyway if the vehicle is otherwise OK and works well (it IS
12 years old!) is anyone going to quibble about a small
percentage difference of a few miles or kilometres driven?
On other hand; If 'car is on its last legs' then it should not
have been bought! At least not for that price even if it is an
Accura!
My opinion. Terry.
PS. If I CONVERT 164,114 miles to kilometres using 0.6214 I get
264,104. Suleman (wisely!) noted that it was listed as a dealer
vehicle with 264,117 kilometres. That's a difference of only 13
kilometres; for moving the vehicle, incidental trial runs by
potential buyers etc. Seems reasonable?
It does not appear to be the kind of situation where one of the
dealers staff drove to the vehicle to Vancouver and back to
attend a wedding!

 

*cough*, *cough*

Honesty issue aside, dealers may not be as stupid as people would like
to believe, so you may well still be right.

J.

 

Uhhh... I have been reading this thread and I am bit confused as to
what the car's odometer actually reads. Is the odometer showing 169K
or 260K? You say it came from the States and had 164K miles. Now it
has 169K *Kilometers*?

Could it be something as simple as the dealer/garage/seller/whoever
imported the car simply changed the face of the speedometer to read
KM's as primary instead of MPH?

Or is the *number* on the odometer actually reading 260K now?

The thread seems a bit vague as to what the car was/is reading...?

Just my $0.02.

Kevin